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What are the Heavy-Set Paw-Paws? What’s it like making music in Beckley, West Virginia? And what does “Appalachian Stank” mean as a music genre? I sat down with the alt-rock group’s frontman Tyler Evans to get to the bottom of these questions and more.
Heavy-Set Paw-Paws released Nine Genies in the Family Room this past June, and you can keep up with the band on Facebook and Twitter. To hear more of their music, tune in to ‘A Change of Tune,’ airing Saturdays at 10pm EST on West Virginia Public Broadcasting.
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More than 1,600 counties in the U.S. are so-called news deserts - places with limited options for local news. Most of West Virginia’s 55 counties fall into that category. In this encore episode of Us & Them, host Trey Kay visits one online startup in Greenbrier County that’s bucking the trend.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsConstruction and building removal work is scheduled to begin in late November in the Prince, Thurmond and Brookside areas of New River Gorge National Park and Preserve, despite resistance.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsYoung students at Floyd County, Virginia’s Handmade Music School are compiling a songbook of tunes that have become standards in their community. One of those songs came from influential Virginia bluegrass band The Lost & Found. This summer, Handmade Music School student Rylah Grim spoke with the band’s longtime banjo player Gene Parker, about a song he helped write, called “Brown Hill.”
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsOn this West Virginia Week, former governor and longtime U.S. senator Jay Rockefeller has died, West Virginia voted in the general election, and a new anthology explores science fiction and fantasy in Appalachia.
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